By Getting-On-Board, Jun 21 2018 10:36AM

We were delighted to run a board-matching event for Accenture on Monday 18th June 2018.

Accenture's 2020 volunteering strategy focuses on skilled volunteering: how their employees can use their professional skills to have real impact on the causes about which they are passionate. Of course, trusteeship is also a fabulous personal and professional development opportunity for trustees themselves. In our research, 96% of trustees (people at all levels in their professonal life) said that they had learnt new skills from serving on a charity board.

At the event we explored some of the myths about joining a charity board, questioned Accenture employees who are already trustees and charities looking for trustees, and then we got networking! Potential trustees met with charities looking for trustees.

Speed networking is an excellent way of meeting as many people as possible in a short space of time and having an excuse to move on if there isn't an obvious match. As usual, when we called the end of the formal speed networking, people carried on!

Thank you to all of the potential trustees and charities who came along.

If you might like a board-match event at your place of work, please get in touch with Penny Wilson, penny@gettingonboard.org.

By Getting-On-Board, Jun 1 2018 04:20PM

Getting on Board has been working with 30 charities over the last few weeks to help them recruit new trustees as part of Trustee Recruitment Pathways which is supported by Comic Relief, Anjoli Stewart and the Pears Foundation.

We are now delighted to go live for Volunteers Week 2018 with trustee vacancies across England and Wales, in a variety of charitiable organisations undertaking the most incredible work. The charities need different skills and experiences including:

All of the charities actively want to increase the diversity of their boards because they believe that diversity of thought enriches their governance, so if you have one of the skills listed and are from any of the groups under-represented on charity boards nationally (female, under 50s, disabled, from a BAME community or any other minority) we particularly want to hear from you.

Trustees lead charities and trusteeship is an incredible personal and professional development opportunity, as well as a chance to support a charity to thrive.